December 2010 Archives - Emotional Affair Journey

My Top 3 Goals for 2011

Posted on 30. Dec, 2010 by Linda.

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Doug suggested that I write a post about my New Year’s Resolution’s and I told him I am not really a resolution kind of girl. I avoid making New Year’s resolutions because they often become more of a failure than an accomplishment, and I end up feeling bad about myself. So I thought about what [...]

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Discussion: Your New Year’s Goals for Affair Recovery

Posted on 29. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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Happy Wednesday! As 2011 fast approaches, it is typically a time to reflect on the past year and look forward to, and plan for the new year. For many of us, it is a time for setting goals and making resolutions. With this in mind…What are your goals and/or resolutions with respect to your relationship [...]

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How to Recover From an Affair With RPL

Posted on 28. Dec, 2010 by Linda.

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We recently picked up a copy of “Affair Repair” by relationship expert and author Kara Oh. In short, the book offers advice on how to recover from an affair by recreating your marriage based on the feelings you had when you first fell in love with your spouse. One of the techniques she describes was [...]

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Little Reminders of What Could Have Been

Posted on 27. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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We had a very nice Christmas and we hope that all of you did as well. Santa was very good to me and our family and it truly is a blessing that we have each other and can spend the holidays together as a family. Things seemed to go well with Linda this year. Better [...]

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Affair Recovery and My First Experience With a Therapist

Posted on 23. Dec, 2010 by Linda.

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Recovering from an affair is a long and painful experience with many ups and downs. Most betrayed spouses want the pain and memories to go away and often we put a time limit on how long our affair recovery should take. I know that in my situation, it has been two years since our D-day [...]

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Discussion: What’s Your Miracle After the Affair?

Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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Happy Wednesday! Our discussion this week centers around a question that was posed to Linda recently. This will be short and sweet. Since this is the holiday season and is often said to be a time for miracles…When you go to sleep tonight and you knew that one miracle would occur by the time you [...]

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Reconnecting Emotionally After the Affair

Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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One essential element in surviving infidelity and repairing your marriage is to heal and deepen your emotional connection with your spouse after the affair. Obviously, the emotional connection between a man and wife is severely broken after infidelity. Quite often it can be the final blow to a marriage. Prior to my emotional affair, Linda [...]

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A Marital Affair Can Get Real Serious Real Fast

Posted on 20. Dec, 2010 by Linda.

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I have learned so much from the contributions of the cheating spouses on this site because they have provided insight about their feelings and actions during their marital affairs. One aspect that has intrigued me was how serious an affair relationship can become in a relatively short period of time. One cheater claimed that after [...]

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Our Emotional Affair Recovery One Year Later

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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Today is the first year anniversary of starting this blog and we thought it would be appropriate to present to you a status update of sorts on our emotional affair recovery over the last year. I’ll warn you in advance that this is a long post, so hit the bathroom, grab a sandwich and something [...]

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Discussion: How Have You Dealt With Your Feelings?

Posted on 15. Dec, 2010 by Doug.

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Happy Wednesday! Our discussion this week was suggested by one of our readers, and we thought it was very appropriate as we head towards the new year. Here is the suggestion from “Maryanna1962″ for this week’s topic: “Now that 2010 is drawing to a close, I’m wondering if it would be possible for all of [...]